Reviews for The Princess Bride : S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

The average rating for The Princess Bride : S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-11-11 00:00:00 David Berges Finally. I needed some angst and injustice and drama without a chaser and I got it. Heroine is 21 year-old debutante who chases her father�s business partner a 30-something rancher and cynical playboy. The hero very much wants to have sex with heroine, but she�s a virgin and he is not interested in marriage or children. The heroine wears a designer white dress with diamante straps and a gardenia in her hair for her 21st birthday. (Remember that because she doesn�t wear anything as nice for her wedding.) Heroine pouts at her party because the hero is flirting with another guest, so she runs off with an assistant town clerk in her Jaguar. Assistant town clerk is driving because the heroine has had a few. They get pulled over for going 85 miles an hour (gotta love those straight roads in Texas). Hero shows up to take the heroine home. He pulls over to introduce her to breast rubs and chest hair, but harshly tells her that's as far as it will go between them. Assistant town clerk is never seen again. The next day, hero goes off to Jamaica with his secretary (OW) and heroine realizes she has lost � hero only wants her for her body and not marriage. She goes to New York with her godmother and begins a great modeling career. Hero is miffed that she�s doing lingerie shots, but her father points out that hero has no say in the matter. Heroine returns for Christmas break with a male model in tow. Male model promptly falls for a neighbor of the h�s. Hero is jealous of the MM and angry the heroine didn�t invite him and the OW to their annual holiday party. Heroine is able to show him that the OW deleted their invitation to make the heroine look bad. I did like this heroine. She fought for what she wanted and she grew up. When she eventually landed the hero (he was planning on marrying for a few months so he could have sex with her and then divorce), she agreed to a small wedding since her priorities had changed . But when she saw the OW�s hand in the insulting flowers the hero was supposed to provide, as well as the OW�s white dress and the OW kissing the hero on the mouth in front of everyone after the ceremony, she was angry and told the hero off. Hero didn�t try to defend himself, although they did go on their Caribbean honeymoon to keep up appearances. Heroine got drunk on their wedding night and slept in another bedroom. Heroine had a hangover the next day and hero gave her aspirin. She had an allergic reaction and had a ride in the ambulance for emergency treatment. Hero is shaken by the h's near-death experience and finally realizes he wants their marriage to work. When heroine recovers, they have sex for the first time and all is well until the hero is called back home for a labor dispute. Heroine knows right away it was the OW�s doing. Meanwhile, heroine�s father had a showdown with the OW and fires her. (Go Dad!) Hero is angry OW tricked him, but he feels like he should give the OW two weeks to work out her notice. Heroine�s father is so angry he has a heart attack and dies. I know right? Finally some drama and OW comeuppance on the page. Heroine is angry at the hero and the OW for triggering her father's heart attack. But there is more bad news. Her father had been duped by an embezzling accountant and she will have very little money from her inheritance. Hero is working non-stop to save her father�s business interests. Heroine is glad he is away so much since she is pregnant and she knows the hero doesn�t want children. She is planning to leaving him so she can have her baby in secret. Hero discovers her pregnancy when he sees her bump and heroine misunderstands his reaction. She runs out of the house and falls, earning yet another ride in an ambulance. Hero is actually excited by the baby and is sorry for his stupidity about marriage and impending parenthood. HEA Despite the age difference, the H/h were both immature in their own way and managed to grow up during the course of the story so I�m happy with their HEA. Diana Palmer checklist: Hairy chest Check Breast Description They taste like gardenias! Cigarettes N0 Alcohol Pina Coladas strike again! No wonder h had a hangover. Town Descriptions Adding a flower shop, bakery Gardenia Scent see breasts LOL detail How heroine became a top model in six weeks Cutesy detail None, thank goodness.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-04 00:00:00 Douglas Hoblit [Yes, the h is an immature, rich girl type who is panting after the sexy cattle baron, neighbor and her father's business partner. (I did not get the business though. So, he's partner in the feed lots?) He's been the one for her since she was 14 and now, she's part confident, part insecure about landing the hunky, experienced older man who thinks her too young, too inexperienced, too virginal for him. The book opens just prior to her 21st birthday and she's inviting him to her party, rather coercing him. It's cute and adorable the way she tries her wiles on him. But, the way she behaves at her party when he doesn't give her attention stamps her as a silly, self-absorbed deb. (She improves and matures soon, later.) Then we get the archetypal DP hot scene and it is incendiary! Oh my, I was fanning myself. The H is frustrated as he cannot have an affair with his business partner's daughter and marriage is abhorrent to him. So, they part and she goes to New York and becomes a model. Stays away for almost a year? Reunion leads to another scorching conflagration and the frustrated H proposes. Proposes and goes into deep freeze. And the downhill course begins. **Super Super Spoilerish Rant** Problem??? Huge. As the H's macho-ness, his intelligence, his common sense all vanish like snowflakes in the Texas sun. Sorry DP, but that was hugely out of character. Suddenly, the said ow, his secretary gets active in the story - ruining their wedding day. And the H says nothing! She comes dressed in a bride like dress complete with veil, making sure the flowers arrangements are ugly and wilted, that the h gets no bouquet, kisses the groom passionately in front of all?! And he does nothing! Rather cribs at the h? In the first place it was crass to invite his ex-lover, secretary or no. Gets worse. Yes, they have a fight in the car but that fizzles out as the h becomes despondent and he becomes a wimp and then he ignores the h on reaching Jamaica (honeymoon destination) and lets her go out alone for dinner. So many things. She needs to go to a hospital for an anaphylactic shock (aspirin for hangover) and when the doctor asks him if he wants to accompany her in the ambulance, he baulks and follows in a taxi. What was the need of that, DP? Hs, all romance Hs are protective of hs, especially in emergencies like these so why show this? The h was unconscious so she wouldn't know one way or other. Did not make sense even If it was to contrast with the second ambulance trip. *sigh* Kinda broke my heart And then the delayed wedding night, The sex was hot, hot and hot. But, to first invite her to his bed to only take care of the just returned from hospital h (�You don�t need to be alone tonight. It�s a king-size bed, and you won�t need to worry that I�ll take advantage.�) And then to, all of a sudden, go into dominating sex mode - I did not like it. It just underscores the purely physical side of their relationship. Can it get worse? Oh yes! When she wakes up, he is gone! Leaving her a letter of (about emergency at work) and money for her ticket. Muchos crassness!!! This happens only in books and movies - to leave without waking up a person and explaining the reasons for leaving. (Unless you are really sneaking away, that is) Of course, the 'emergency' was created by the ow. And he fell for it. Could he not have called up other people to confirm when he knew ( or should know by now) the ow to be a trouble maker? More?? When he gets back, I was hoping for him to lash out at the ow but he's mild and handles her with caution. He lost all (rest of the) of my respect there and then. It was the h's father (one of the best and most caring parent I've recently read in a romance) who chews out the ow's ass and fires her. But our 'hero' gets apologetic and tells her to work out her notice! Rant is getting long but I have to work it out. We later learn that the H knew of the ow's complete duplicity before walking into this situation as he first went to another female employee who he had enlisted for doing the wedding flowers and he knew the whole truth when he came to the office. So, why was he so mild to the ow when he 'gave hell' to this other person and later tells the h that was 'livid' when he went to the ow??? Let me give you some examples ... �Harrison (the father) was breathing fire. Apparently he�d got the wrong end of the stick and Carla (ow) had done nothing to change his mind. �You�ve made an enemy of him,� King told her. �A bad one. Your behavior at the wedding is something he won�t forget.� Wrong end of the stick? I am weak with English idioms but doesn't that mean that someone has misunderstood things? So, what was the wrong in the father's understanding. He read the b*tch quite right! Enemy of 'him?' 'He' won't forget? What about you, buster? Weren't you 'Livid' at her? Sheesh! �I�ll see what I can do about getting you another job. But not here,� he added quietly. �I�m not going against Harrison.� Quietly? Against Harrison? Aren't you invested in the situation? He's such a wuss! And, all along he's thinking how she was 'exciting' and 'challenging' at one time but was now a 'nuisance'. Most of Dp Hs, though experienced are mostly long-celibate types and do not sleep with the secretary-ow but this one has. So, okay. But first the author keeps it a bit hazy on the H-ow relations and then suddenly we get all this thrown at our face. Still it could have been salvaged if only the H had kicked the ow's ass - quite deservedly so. I don't know what was the author's intention here - perhaps the H was being gentlemanly to an old flame. But, why when he has no such consideration for the woman he knows loves him. He doesn't deserve the sweet wife he lets down and hurts intentionally every chance he gets. And then I found his explanation and grovel very very unsatisfactory. It was kinda okay but did not satisfy something in me. Something that wanted blood (of the ow) and tears (for the h). Btw, Her godmother and a possible love interest for her dad was a lovely, loving and caring character. As was the om, a very good looking fellow model who is in the story for a short period. Why the high rating then? Those amazing and signature makeout and sex scenes! It's been a while since I read a DP (almost 2 years), and have read dozens and dozens of books (HPs n HRs) in between but this chemistry is way off charts. So, deserves credit. (hide spoiler)]